Review By KRISTIN WALD Using what we’ve learned to hate about rats, DIRTY RATS?, leads us from familiar (disgusted!) territory to cute, helpful, furry territory with interesting facts and adorable images of many different kinds of rats. Author Darrin Lunde is a mammalogist with the American Museum of Natural History, so he knows his rats. And […]
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Dirty Rats?
October 15th, 2015 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Adam Gustavson·Darrin Lunde·Early Elementary·Issues Facing Wildlife·Kristin Wald·Rats·Urban Wildlife·Wild Animals
The Monsters’ Monster
April 8th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By KATRINA F. This story is, in a word, charming. The Monsters’ Monster is the tale of three tiny monster friends who constantly bicker over which of them is the biggest and baddest monster. Ultimately, they can’t make up their minds and decide to create the biggest, baddest monster together, using some comical and […]
Tags: Bats·Caretaking·Good for Toddlers·Humor·Junk Food·Katrina Donovan Fleming·Kindness·Monsters·Patrick McDonnell·Picture Books·Preschoolers·Rats·Snakes·Spiders
Claude and Medea
February 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Authored by humane educator extraordinaire Zoe Weil, Claude and Medea traces the compassionate awakening of two twelve year olds. Both students at a prestigious private school in Manhattan, Claude comes from a background of wealth and privilege while his classmate Medea’s background is working class. The two are not friends at […]
Tags: Animal Rescue·Animal Research·animal rights·Dogs·Humane Education·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·Rats·Vegetarian Characters·Vegetarian Protagonist·Zoe Weil
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
January 31st, 2012 · 6 Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY When a mama mouse living in a field must save her family from the plow, including her son who is stricken with pneumonia, she discovers a secret world of super-intelligent rats who have suffered at the hands of vivisectors (at the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH) and are seeking […]
Tags: 1980s Childrens Movies·Animal Research·animal rights·Animated Movies·Don Bluth·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Mice·Older Elementary·Rats·Vivisection